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A woman's life is a human life: my mother, our neighbour, and the journey from reproductive rights to reproductive justice

A woman's life is a human life: my mother, our neighbour, and the journey from reproductive rights to reproductive justice

Felicia Kornbluh | 2023 | Grove Press | 9780802160683

Subject: Biography


Source: The New York Times

Review: "This history takes its inspiration from a pair of neighbors on the eighth floor of 800 West End Avenue," writes the historian Felicia Kornbluh in the early pages of her comprehensive, compelling chronicle of the activists who fought to change New York's abortion laws both before and after Roe v. Wade. The neighbors in question were Helen Rodriguez-Trias, a Puerto Rican doctor who co-founded the C...Read More

And finally: matters of life and death

And finally: matters of life and death

Henry Marsh | 2023 | St. Martin's Press | 9781250286086

Subject: Fiction


Source: The New York Times

Review: It was said by the Roman philosopher Cicero that to philosophize is to learn how to die. He was echoed by the 16th-century essayist Michel de Montaigne, sometimes in earnest, at other times in jest. "If you don't know how to die, don't worry," Montaigne playfully concluded. "Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately."...Read More

Babi yar: a document in the form of a novel

Babi yar: a document in the form of a novel

Anatoly Kuznetsov | 2023 | Picador | 9781250883834

Subject: Fiction


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929-1979) was 12 years old in 1941 when the German army entered his neighborhood in the outskirts of Kiev. To his grandfather, as to many others, their arrival was a deliverance: It marked the end of Soviet rule, which had brought about collectivization, purges and the forced famine of the Holodomor. So he was quick to offer rationales when Nazi officials posted a decree demand...Read More

Culture: the story of us, from cave art to K-pop

Culture: the story of us, from cave art to K-pop

Martin Puchner | 2023 | W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393867992

Subject: Arts and Culture


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Half-quoting Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Puchner argues in "Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop" that "the arc of cultural history bends toward circulation and mixture." His book gathers an imaginary museum of selected texts, artifacts and artwork-music, apart from Korean pop, seldom features-from across three millennia. This episodic history of human creativity is framed as a tale of...Read More

Foolproof: why misinformation infects our minds and how to build immunity

Foolproof: why misinformation infects our minds and how to build immunity

Sander van der Linden | 2023 | W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393881448

Subject: Healthcare


Source: Financial Times

Review: Rukmani and her family were driving to a temple in Tamil Nadu, India, in May 2018, when they stopped to ask for directions from an elderly local lady. It seemed a safe enough thing to do. The family hadn't realised that almost every local with access to WhatsApp had been receiving dire warnings of "child lifters", forwarded from group chat to group chat. The local lady thought these over-friendly ...Read More

Happily: a personal history-with fairy tales

Happily: a personal history-with fairy tales

Sabrina Orah Mark | 2023 | Random House | 9780593242476

Subject: Biography


Source: The New York Times

Review: "Fairy tales themselves are well-trodden paths," writes Sabrina Orah Mark in "Happily," her new essay collection. "I connect pieces of fairy tales to walk me through motherhood, and marriage, and America, and weather, and loneliness, and failure, and inheritance, and love." When history and truth are subject to excruciating debate, returning to the ur-texts of one's childhood seems completely sens...Read More

India is broken: a people betrayed, independence to today

India is broken: a people betrayed, independence to today

Ashoka Mody | 2023 | Stanford University Press | 9781503630055

Subject: Social Science


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: "India Is Broken." Today, 75 years after independence from Britain, Mr. Mody believes that India's democracy and economy are in a state of profound malfunction. The book's tale, he writes, "is one of continuous erosion of social norms and decay of political accountability." You might add that it is also a tale of an audacious political experiment on the brink of failure....Read More

Liliana's invincible summer: a sister's search for justice

Liliana's invincible summer: a sister's search for justice

Cristina Rivera Garza | 2023 | Hogarth | 9780593244098

Subject: Biography


Source: The New York Times

Review: Every day in Mexico, 10 women die by femicide, a hate crime wherein a woman is murdered because she is a woman. You can be forgiven for not knowing this term. We almost never use it in the United States, though we should. The language Americans use for the murders of women by men leans heavily on aberrance and singularity - men who murder women have "snapped," they are -evil,' they are "disaffecte...Read More

Madame Restell: the life, death, and resurrection of old New York's most fabulous, fearless, and infamous abortionist

Madame Restell: the life, death, and resurrection of old New York's most fabulous, fearless, and infamous abortionist

Jennifer Wright | 2023 | Hachette Books | 9780306826795

Subject: Biography


Source: The New York Times

Review: Jennifer Wright opens her painfully timely biography of Madame Restell, the notorious "abortionist of Fifth Avenue," with her final arrest, in 1878, at the hands of the anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock. For Comstock, a Victorian zealot who smeared his sexual obsessions all over American life well into the 20th century, this was the climax of an epic struggle between Satan's handmaiden and his f...Read More

Making India great again: learning from our history

Making India great again: learning from our history

Meeta and Rajivlochan | 2023 | Manohar | 9789390035205

Subject: General


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: What explains the contrast between India's chronic poverty and its vast resource reserves? How instrumental was colonialism in amplifying this mismatch? What prevents present-day institutions from maximally leveraging India's talent pool for overall growth? These are some of the guiding questions that Meeta Rajivlochan and Rajivlochan field in the book under review. They delve into India's past an...Read More

Never give an inch: fighting for the America I love

Never give an inch: fighting for the America I love

Mike Pompeo | 2023 | Broadside Books | 9780063247444

Subject: Biography


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Mr. Pompeo loathes disingenuous language, which makes it all the more delightful that he was secretary of state. "Diplo-speak," as he calls it, is designed to say very little in as many words as possible. His description of diplomatic communiqu's, bland statements of putative agreement drafted after multilateral talks, is delightfully ill-tempered. "Even the effete-sounding name makes me bristle ....Read More

Nothing stays put: the life and poetry of Amy Clampitt

Nothing stays put: the life and poetry of Amy Clampitt

Willard Spiegelman | 2023 | Knopf | 9780525658269

Subject: Biography


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Indeed, Clampitt was one of a kind, her work stubbornly and satisfyingly unclassifiable. "I'm not a poet of place, but of displacement," she once proclaimed. She managed to be both, her poems depicting the various locations she visited or called home, but also chronicling escape, immigration, disorientation and dispossession. Many of those poems commune with nature, exploring the physical world of...Read More

Plato goes to China: the Greek classics and Chinese nationalism

Plato goes to China: the Greek classics and Chinese nationalism

Shadi Bartsch | 2023 | Princeton University Press | 9780691229591

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In the opening pages of "Plato Goes to China," classicist Shadi Bartsch promises that by tracing the history of the Chinese reception of ancient Greek and Roman political philosophy, her book offers "a uniquely illuminating vantage point for observing China's transformation in its cultural and political self-confidence." She further promises to explore in depth the uses that have been made of the ...Read More

Say the right thing: how to talk about identity, diversity, and justice

Say the right thing: how to talk about identity, diversity, and justice

Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow | 2023 | Atria Books | 9781982181383

Subject: Leadership


Source: The New York Times

Review: Needless to say, the debates that Hasan writes about seem to meet certain conditions - you have a case to make; your opponent has a case to make; you're more or less equally matched; and whatever you say won't impinge on the relationship between you (and even if it does, you don't care). In "Say the Right Thing," Yoshino and Glasgow are talking about different kinds of conversations. Relating is a...Read More

Sink: a memoir

Sink: a memoir

Joseph Earl Thomas | 2023 | Grand Central Publishing | 9781538706176

Subject: Biography


Source: The New York Times

Review: The trick of memoir resides in the illusion it conjures: Living is ongoing, but the packaged product can imply a totality. Something has been learned, or experienced or endured, and tidily enough to have been condensed between two covers. What the reader ultimately receives is the extract of a life. In deft hands, you're privy to the purest distillation of its burdens and boons. But despite the ru...Read More

Temptation transformed: the story of how the forbidden fruit became an apple

Temptation transformed: the story of how the forbidden fruit became an apple

Azzan Yadin-Israel | 2023 | University of Chicago Press | 9780226820767

Subject: General


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In "Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple," Mr. Yadin-Israel, a professor of Jewish studies at Rutgers, notes that the original Hebrew of Genesis never claims that Adam and Eve partook of an apple. Instead it refers to peri, a generic term for fruit. Likewise the Septuagint, the ancient translation of Hebrew holy texts into Greek, calls it karpos, and the Vul...Read More

The American way: a true story of Nazi escape, superman, and Marilyn Monroe

The American way: a true story of Nazi escape, superman, and Marilyn Monroe

Helene Stapinski, Bonnie Siegler | 2023 | Simon & Schuster | 9781982171667

Subject: History


Source: The New York Times

Review: While "The American Way" centers on Schulback, a German-born Jew who became a successful Manhattan furrier and amateur filmmaker, it also spotlights Harry Donenfeld, the man who was his financial sponsor in 1938. (At the time, sponsors were required for Jews trying to escape the Nazis and enter the United States.) Donenfeld was a publisher of "girlie" magazines, but, as Stapinski and Siegler repor...Read More

The critic's daughter: a memoir

The critic's daughter: a memoir

Priscilla Gilman | 2023 | W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393651324

Subject: Biography


Source: The New York Times

Review: Priscilla Gilman's new memoir, "The Critic's Daughter," is about her tangled relationship with her father, the critic Richard Gilman. By the end of the book, there's a lot of blood on the floor, but it doesn't belong to the author or her ostensible subject. Richard Gilman's name has begun to fade, like a paperback left too long in the sun, but in the 1970s and 80s he was a critical and academic ti...Read More

The emotional lives of teenagers: raising connected, capable, and compassionate adolescents

The emotional lives of teenagers: raising connected, capable, and compassionate adolescents

Lisa Damour Ph.D. | 2023 | Ballantine Books | 9780593500019

Subject: Social Science


Source: The New York Times

Review: You know what's enjoyable about living with teenagers' Nothing. Truly, not one thing. They might distract you by appearing to be deeply interesting and funny, but don't be fooled - teenagers are diabolical. They have studied their parents and caregivers enough to know what we'll find most irritating. And now, adding insult to injury, our worries about them have amplified over the past few years, w...Read More

The exceptions: Nancy Nopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science

The exceptions: Nancy Nopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science

Kate Zernike | 2023 | Scribner | 9781982131838

Subject: Gender Studies


Source: The New York Times

Review: The word "exception" implies rules, and as we know, rules are made to be broken. But in real life, it can be a frustrating business - especially if you're a woman in science, especially in the decades leading up to the 21st century and especially if you're not the rule-breaking type. There were 16 rule breakers on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And exactly what these wom...Read More

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